The Falcon Company railroad
The Falcon Company was an American railroad company founded in the early 19th century by Nathaniel Black and the Black family. The company was granted a contract by the US government to lay down tracks all the way to the Pacific Ocean in Oregon in 1817, and it would build railroads from St. Louis in Missouri to the sea.
History[]
The company building the railroad
The Falcon Company was established in the early 19th century by the Black family, and Nathaniel Black led the company until his death in 1812. Amelia Black took over the company after her father's death, and the company was bankrupted due to her father's lack of business skills. She had to compete with the St. Louis Rail Company, and in 1817 their rivalry turned violent when Major Ryan Cooper informed her that the government would only grant her the contract to build the railroad to the Pacific Ocean if she could defeat her rivals. Black and the US Army burnt down the St. Louis Rail Co.'s trading posts and built her own trading posts along the route, which she transformed into a railroad. She also built a railroad through Fort Oloma, but she would be absent from the leadership for the rest of the year, as she was busy tracking down the French prospector Pierre Beaumont, who had attempted to kill her. The company would be revitalized in the next few years as she gained new investors in Florida and Cuba, using the fortune that Beaumont had amassed as well as the gold from sunken Spanish treasure ships in Florida, to fund the company. Although the Falcon Company was not the first company to reach the coast, they had a piece of the pie from their venture.